He's also a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He's the author of “The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.” Wall Street Journal “A defiant Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki promised he would firmly confront any meddling by Iran ...

As Anatol Lieven describes Russia had long assumed China would be forced to depend on it for oil, yet China sought out resources from other sources. Russia has not become China's major energy provider unlike Europe with its heavy dependence on Russian ...

But Tamar Jacoby of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of small business owners, isn't holding her breath. "The Supreme Court has already ruled this year that it's okay for the states to play a role in work site enforcement," she said in an ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said she believes the failures of the deficit deal help to move along the debate. “I think each one of these things in the political arena right now actually brings us closer ...

“Many couples are perfectly content and well adjusted, but for the stigmatizing opposition of friends, family, in-laws and even religious traditions,” said Liza Mundy, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of a new book, “The Richer Sex: ...

British soldiers conduct a reconnaissance mission in the Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand Province Ex-CIA official Bruce Riedel, Pakistan expert Anatol Lieven and former European Union diplomat Michael Semple - expelled from Afghanistan for holding ...

While much of the criticism of SOPA has come from liberal groups including Public Knowledge, New America Foundation, and Demand Progress, not-so-liberal opponents want to make sure that their concerns are heard as well. The advocacy group Americans for ...

The Republican candidates are competing to offer politically attractive proposals, said Marc Goldwein, policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group that advocates for budget discipline, and a former aide to the ...

... The second step is to study whether a low- or no-cost intervention could be designed that would allow HUD to incorporate FSS-type features into the very fabric of rental assistance and offer them to everyone in subsidized housing. Reid Cramer and I have developed one approach for doing so and would urge that it be tested rigorously against other alternatives to evaluate costs and benefits. ...

Yet, as Flynt Leverett, a former Middle East analyst for the US National Security Council and the CIA, has observed: "It is far from clear that the Assad government is actually imploding ... Moreover, no one has identified a plausible scenario by which ...

... But there are doubters. “They use one hell-of-a complicated series of data manipulations (and keep in mind, this is coming from someone with a heavy background in advanced quantitative statistics),” said Sascha Meinrath, co-founder of MeasurementLab.net. ...

"People often decide to go back to school and start a new career when the economy gets bad, but this recession has gone on so long that the job market is weak even when they graduate," said Anne Stuhldreher, a senior fellow at the New America ...

If they are killed, it's as close to over as it can ever be,” said Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation and the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. “Al-Qaeda will never completely disappear,” Fishman pointed out. “There is always going to ...

Nowhere was this gloominess more clearly worn than at a symposium hosted by the New America Foundation in downtown Washington Wednesday evening. The event itself centered on an October paper called “The Way Forward” by Daniel Alpert, Robert Hockett, ...

... And on broadband competition, as the New America Foundation’s Sascha Meinrath says, “for all the bold rhetoric and symbolism, the Obama administration has been remarkably timid.” Nothing either in the speech or the National Broadband Plan adopted last year remotely amounts to a Fair Deal in critical 21st century infrastructure. ...

One month ago, Anatol Lieven, a professor at the War Studies Department in King's College London, joined a group dinner with Prime Minister Putin. He calls Putin a master politician and predicts he will regain his footing. “It's just the beginning of ...

Held in the Pink City for the first time, the INKtalks would continue till Sunday with several more motivational speakers participating in the sessions. Other speakers included John Hardy, Ayesha Khanna, Parag Khanna and Bedri Baykam.